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aj77 kirjoitti:Toukokuun 28. päivän vastaisena yönä ilmestyi uutisia kapinasta libanonilaisen Hezbollah-ryhmän joukkojen keskuudessa, jotka osallistuivat hyökkäykseen kaupungissa, yhdessä Syyrian hallituksen joukkojen kanssa. Muutamat Hezbollahiin kuuluneet osastot poistuivat taistelukentältä ja pakenivat Libanoniin.
For the first time, Al Jazeera has gained access to a frontline view of the stand-off outside Al Raqqa City. Opposition snipers from the Ahrar al-Sham Brigade, a group that has a reputation for some of the fiercest combat fighters in Syria's war, are in the forefront of the fight against the Assad regime. Al-Sham wants an Islamic State in Syria, and share ideology with groups like Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq. That puts them in an ideological divide with the Free Syria Army, creating a division that's holding back the revolution. Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Al Raqqa.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/29/3422918/hezbollah-said-to-control-most.htmlBEIRUT -- Hezbollah and Syrian government forces have seized most of the strategically important town of Qusayr near the Lebanese border, fighters on both sides of the conflict said Wednesday, in what would be a huge setback for the rebels fighting to topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/all-sides-hedging-bets-on-flow-of-arms-to-syria/2013/05/29/6464af26-c7bf-11e2-8da7-d274bc611a47_story.htmlThe Syrian army’s March weapons request to its Russian supplier was the stuff of everyday battles in a long and grueling conflict. Twenty-thousand Kalashnikov assault rifles and 20 million rounds of ammunition. Machine guns. Grenade launchers and grenades. Sniper rifles with night-vision sights.
The Syrian army general asked for a price quote “in the shortest possible time.” He closed with kind regards to Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state arms exporter.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/breaking-syria-opens-fire-on-turkish-patrol-turkey-returns-fire-15k-troops-from-18-countries-prep-in-jordan-for-syria-invasion/Western sources claim international forces will stay in Jordan after joint military exercise ‘to prepare for possible intervention in Syria’
A joint military exercise scheduled to take place in Jordan next week is aimed among other things at readying forces for a possible intervention in Syria, Western officials told Ynet on Tuesday.
More than 15,000 soldiers from 18 different countries are set to take part in “Eager Lion 2013.”
The drill will include battlefield, logistics and humanitarian exercises for troops from Britain, Bahrain, Canada, Czech Republic, Israel will not take part in the drill but will continue its “red line” policy against arms shipments to Hezbollah.
According to one western official, forces will remain on the ground after the drill “in case the need will arise to intervene in Syria.”
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/chemical-weapons-found-in-turkey-al-qaeda-raid/45804Major reports by two Turkish daily newspapers detail the arrest of twelve suspects linked to the Reyhanl? bombings on May 11 in which 51 people were killed and 140 injured. The 12 suspected Al-Qaeda members were arrested in Adana, southern Turkey and anti-terrorist police seized among other items, 2 kilograms of the sarin nerve agent.
Zaman reports that the dawn raid took place on Monday, 27 May following intelligence gathered on the cell.
Additionally, today, Radikal reported that of the 12 arrested suspects of Jabhat al-Nusra, 5 were released.Radikal also reported the seizure of the nerve agent sarin which is categorised as a weapon of mass destruction in the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.
“We’re seeing many things we haven’t seen before,” said Brig. Gen. Hussein al-Zyoud, commander of Jordanian border security forces. “We’ve seen new kinds of armored vehicles, and other vehicles used for jamming communications. We’re seeing night-vision and thermal devices that we haven’t seen in the past.”
The new hardware has added to a sense of momentum that pro-government forces have been enjoying since mid-spring.
Improved communication and surveillance are a key part of an evolving Syrian military doctrine that has been strikingly successful in recent weeks. White described the new tactics as “Qusair rules,” an allusion to the ongoing Syrian military offensive to retake the key city of Qusair near Lebanon’s northern border.
The approach involves the use of regular and irregular troops to isolate rebel units and cut off their access to supplies and reinforcements. Government forces squeeze the rebels into a small area and then unleash a heavy bombardment to inflict as many casualties as possible, White said.
“Eventually they wear down the rebels, killing enough of them so they either leave or get wiped out,” said White, a defense fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank. “It’s operational-level warfare, using maneuver-in-battle to achieve a strategic goal.”